Power System Protection Coordination Studies At Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Utp)

Power systems protection coordination is a study on protection for electrical
power systems from faults caused by component failures within the systems. These
failures can occur due to abnormal operating condition of the equipments such as
generators, transformers, motors and bus bars. Typical faults that always occur in the
systems are such as short circuit/open circuit faults, inter turn faults in windings,
overload and power swings [1]. The protection can be achieved by isolating faulted
equipments from the electrical network. This project is suggested to help in
improving the existing protection coordination of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
(UTP) in order to provide better protection coordination managing systems as well as
to reduce operational expenses, improve efficiency to maintain the performance of
electrical appliances available in UTP thus can enhance services for the organization.
This report includes four main sections; (1) the introduction, (2) literature review, (3)
methodology and (4) the conclusion. The introduction covers the project background,
problem statement, significance of projects, the objectives as well as scope of study
while in literature review section it covers about distribution protection principles,
basic requirements of distribution protection, common types of distribution
protection, types of protection, circuit-breaker current rating and also an overview of
embedded generator. In the next section procedures and tools to be used is covered
and this report ends with conclusion.